Chapter 6: Establishing the Army

  Chapter 6: Establishing the Army

  With his mother's orders, Fubo's efficiency was also very fast, and it only took three days to find all the people needed in Huoshan.

  Looking at the vast square in front of him, which was as large as five football fields, Huo Shan found it hard to believe that there would be such a secret place for military training not far from his own mountain villa.

  He carefully sized it up, and not far away, a row of connected bungalows made of sturdy logs, and he couldn't help but exclaim in his heart: "This is simply a ready-made barracks!"

  "Master, all the people you want have been found, and the name list is here!" The old man said with a smile.

  Huo Shan handed over the manual that Fu Bo had passed to him to Huo Lei, who was following behind him. It's not time to look at this yet!

  Five hundred and fifty sturdy young men, standing together is also a dense black mass! Although being watched by so many people made Huo Shan somewhat uncomfortable, he still walked around the crowd for several laps.

  After roughly sizing them up, Huo Shan couldn't help but nod his head in satisfaction. These people were quite decent, all around twenty years old, with sturdy bodies and no obvious signs of malnutrition on their faces.

  "Uncle Fu, thank you, these people are all of high quality!"

  "As long as the young master is satisfied, that's all that matters." The old man said with a smile. It took him a lot of effort to gather these people in such a short time, and because Madam was urging him to hurry, he even transferred fifty or sixty men from the Huo family's militia.

  "Leizi, find a few people to bring me a table!" Huo Shan turned his head and instructed with a smile the stout young man who had just become his personal bodyguard a few days ago.

  "Uncle Fu, if you have something to attend to, go ahead and take care of it first! No need to keep me company!"

  "Alright, young master, I'll take my leave first. If you have any matters, just instruct Lai Zi to inform me and it will be done." The old man didn't stand on ceremony. With He Da's young master planning to set up four or five large factories in one breath, the procurement of equipment, recruitment of workers, construction of factory buildings and all other miscellaneous tasks were all his responsibility. These past few days, the old steward had been busy to the point of having no time to spare.

  Withdrawing his gaze from the receding back of Fubo, Huo Shan climbed onto the round table brought by Leizi and looked down at the sea of people standing densely below. At this moment, he felt not fear, but a kind of indescribable passion.

  Born into a wealthy family, he had been dressed in finery and fed delicacies since childhood, making him much taller and sturdier than his peers. After climbing onto the over-one-meter-high table, everyone could see him clearly.

  "First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Huo Shan, the young master of the Huo family. For the next three months, you will be training with me. If you train well, I can increase your monthly salary by two silver coins. If you don't train well, I won't deduct your pay, but I'll make him understand what 'pain' is! Especially when he said this last sentence, his expression became somewhat unusual! The painful yet not cruel punishments he received during military training in technical school were still fresh in his memory!"

  Looking at their nonchalant expressions, Huo Shan couldn't help but smile faintly. He understood that due to his young age, his words had no deterrent effect. If he weren't the young master of the Huo family and didn't pay them two taels of silver every month, these guys would have probably run away long ago.

  He stopped Lei Zi, who was about to get angry. Huo Shan's originally narrowed eyes suddenly widened, and he shouted: "Now I order everyone to run five laps around this square for me. Those who can't finish won't be allowed to eat dinner. Start!"

  Having said that, he jumped down from the table and ran out first.

  "Follow me and run, or I'll deduct all your wages!" As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd that was just buzzing with discussion and didn't think much of it suddenly scattered and followed him in a rush. Other things can be ignored, but without money, how can you get by? So when they heard Huo Shan finish speaking, everyone obediently followed him and ran!

  Listening to the chaotic footsteps behind him, Huo Shan cursed in his heart: "TMD, can't I be charming? Alas, the days ahead will be tough." In order to grasp this crucial armed force, he had already decided to train hard every day, just like them.

  Five kilometers of cross-country running, push-ups, team drills, standing at attention and so on, nothing was left out. Anyway, Mount Huo brought all the training projects of the Republic of China to this place.

  As time passed, the initially curious crowd, after a day's time, almost everyone, upon hearing the command to rest in the original place of Huo Mountain, all exaggeratedly fell to the ground.

  After a day of training, his waist and back ached to the point where it was no longer sufficient to describe his current state. Sweat kept flowing down, soaking through all his clothes, which were wet one moment and dry the next, forming a thin layer of salt on the surface. Although he trained half as much as these guys due to age, for a young master like him to achieve this level in this rigidly hierarchical era was already astonishing! Now, Huo Shan could clearly feel that his status among them had risen significantly.

  Silently estimating the time, about ten minutes later, Huo Shanteng suddenly stood up and shouted: "Everyone stand up!"

  "Whoa......!"

  This time no one hesitated, and as soon as they received the order, everyone stood up at their fastest speed.

  Satisfied, he nodded and thought to himself: "Finally, it's somewhat decent!"

  "Now listen to my orders! Those who have read books and know how to write, stand on the left side of the ranks!" As his voice fell, in a few minutes' time, roughly over a hundred people ran out of the ranks.

  After two minutes, seeing that no one else came out, Huo Shan nodded, "Today's training is over here. Tomorrow at 6 o'clock sharp gather here, latecomers will run three laps around the playground. Now except for the left team, everyone else disperse."

  "Lei Zi, have you prepared everything I asked you to?"

  "Young master, everything has been done as you instructed!" After saying that, he leaned closer to Huo Shan and asked in a low voice: "Young master, aren't you exhausted today? Why not let them have the lesson tomorrow instead?"

  After listening to his words, Huo Shan's heart was moved, but he still shook his head firmly. An army that can win battles is not enough with just hard training, because they don't have their own soul yet. Now, Huo Shan wants to make up for this shortcoming and turn this army into a true iron army with his thoughts as its military spirit; an iron Great Wall that can change China's appearance, protect all Chinese people from foreign invasion!

  Standing on the podium of a classroom that resembled those in later generations, Huo Shan's expression was stern as he spoke to the remaining 98 people: "Two people per table, five pencils per person, eleven textbooks, ten notebooks. Now sit down and check the items on your tables. If anything is missing, report it immediately and we will replenish them for you!"

  These are eleven textbooks, except for one "On China" and one book introducing military rules and discipline, the other nine are his revised versions of German army textbooks during World War I. It can be said that in this world today, these nine books are the most advanced land warfare textbooks.

  "Alright, now let's start the lesson. First, open the 'Zhong Hua Lun' on your desks and turn to page one..." The unusual remarks were always the most attractive, in a classroom with over a hundred people, no one spoke, all were focused on listening to Ho Shan's lecture. When people's attention is highly concentrated, time always passes especially quickly. Unbeknownst to them, several hours had passed, and outside, the sky had completely darkened. It wasn't until around 10 o'clock at night that Ho Shan let them go back to rest. After a day of hard work, everyone climbed onto their assigned wooden beds and fell asleep as soon as they lay down.

  Gathering up his own lectern, Huo Shan turned to the sturdy young man who had been standing beside him and said: "Lei Zi, I'm not going home tonight. Find me a clean room, and I'll stay here tonight!"

  "Got it, young master!"

  "Right, heat up some more hot water for me, I want to take a bath...!" After training for a whole day, the stench of sweat on his body was really unbearable! Although Huo Shan didn't have any cleanliness obsession, he just wanted to relax his body a bit!

  "Ah, so comfortable!" Hoshan couldn't help but moan as he soaked in the water. The scalding hot water enveloped his muscles, relieving his physical fatigue! As a wave of irresistible drowsiness washed over him, he soon leaned against the inner wall of the bathtub and fell fast asleep.

  Outside the house, Lei Zi was faithfully guarding his young master. He had been training since he was a child and didn't feel particularly tired after a day of training.

  "Who?" Horry shouted in a low voice, alert to the footsteps coming from the darkness.

  "I'm Lei Zi, is Young Master inside?"

  "Huo Lei has seen the lady, and the young master is now taking a bath inside!" The simple-minded youth said respectfully to the woman in front of him.

  Upon hearing his words, the woman nodded and pushed open the tightly closed door. At a glance, she saw Ho Shan lying in the wooden tub, already snoring softly as he had fallen into a deep sleep. The cooled-down bath water no longer emitted steam, revealing the purple and green bruises on his body clearly to everyone present.

  "Master, waaahhh..." Along with the arrival of Ping'er, the little maid, she looked at her master's miserable state and immediately covered her mouth with her small hands, sobbing.

  As she stroked the scars on her son's body, the woman's eyes also reddened. Her son was the apple of her eye, and after her husband's early death, she had been extremely devoted to their only child.

  "Madam, all the wounds on Young Master's body are...!"

  Looking at the woman nodding silently, Fu Bo let out a heavy sigh and said slowly: "Madam, why not take the young master back? Don't let him suffer like this!"

  "I'm afraid it won't work!" Looking at her son's sleeping face, the woman shook her head and vetoed the old man's proposal.

  With her understanding of her son's strong personality, she can endure such great pain and persist in training. It's probably not something that can be given up with just one word from her.

  "Lotus, bring me the medicinal wine you gave me!"

  After the woman finished applying the medicinal wine and covering her son with a quilt, Xiaoyu couldn't help but ask nervously, "Madam, I...I want to stay and take care of Young Master!"

  She patted her little head and said with a smile: "Okay, you can sleep here tonight, but tomorrow morning, you must come back!"

  Upon hearing her words, the little girl couldn't help but nod vigorously with a red face. The woman smiled warmly and left after leaving behind several servants.

  "Madam, it seems that the young master's ambitions are not small. Today's training method is unusual, but it's clear that he's training an army!" Fu Bo said in a low voice with a complex expression after walking out of the room.

  "It seems you've also noticed!" The woman continued, "I wonder if he'll listen after hearing this!"

  "It's impossible! Only a few people know our secrets, and it will never reach the young master's ears." The old man said seriously.

  Upon hearing this, the woman slowly nodded her head, thought for a moment, then shook her head and sighed: "Forget it, ever since Shan'er became Master Huang's apprentice, he has become more and more sensible, but the things he understands are also getting stranger and stranger. I don't even know how to discipline him anymore!"

  The old man nodded in understanding when he thought of his young master's unusual behavior over the past period of time, and stopped talking.

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